I used the Nylatron bushings in my TR3, but since it is not on the road yeat,
I can not tell you how much rougher the ride is. Kee to putting new bushings
in is to clean & semi polish the holes you will be putting bushings into. Its
amazing how little crud can stop a bushing from sliding it
Sorry thats "sliding in". I used liqued dish soap as an assembly lubercant.
Good Luck!
TeriAnn
From rwg1@postoffice.mail.cornell.edu Tue Sep 11 11:42:31 2001
From: (Roger Garnett) rwg1@postoffice.mail.cornell.edu
To: (British Cars) british-cars@autox.team.net
Date: 24 Aug 93 09:12:21
Subject: Re: Cleanup, & Stripdown
Scott Fisher Writes:
> But before the new motor goes in, I wanted to clean the engine bay.
I'm going through a similar process with The Red Car from Texas ('64 MGB)
right now. It started this spring with pulling the front
crossmember/suspension for a rebuild, and now has progressed to the point
where the car is at a frame shop to correct some 1960's vintage damage.
The engine came out to allow proper access, and the tranny with it. I
cleaned inches of Lubbock sand and LBC oil from the tranny crossmember, and
thick layers of goop from everything else. Seeing as how the engine bay was
apart..., I pulled the heater and pedal box too, both in need of work and
paint. Now the engine bay is almost in a state of cleaned out and
paintable, but it could use some blasting and sanding so that bare metal
can be painted. Depending on when the car comes back, this has the
potential to turn into a full blown case of shipwrights! Oh, but that if I
didn't have so much house work to do this fall.
> straight to a scraper. The guck was so thick here that I was scooping
> it off with a Bondo-spreader
I had pounds of it, scraped onto newspapers. Maybe I should have called the
DEC for removal?
> combined to peel all the paint off the crossmember, so I'll be painting
> that before the motor goes back in.
> Any recommendations?
Well, sure- this would be a real good time to pull the crossmember- 4 bolts-
quick and eazy! Then you can paint it proper, and clean everything while
you're there, and...
----
In the course of all this, it finally came time to disassemble Marietta,
my '65 MGB who served me so well for many years. Memories of countless
hours of work and driving pleasure came back with the removal of each
assembly. Like the fuel pump, which had been off only when I first got
her, or the trim bits aquired from various parts cars along the way. One
front spring with spacer blocks, how could I have lived with that? (it
came that way). This also revealed how much I've learned since I got her-
some jobs that could have been done better, some that were fine. I did my
first engine rebuild here, in the car, and my first paint job, which still
looked good where the rust hadn't burst through.
Removal of body panels exposed the extreme levels of decay I knew were
there, as well as some incomplete hatchet jobs on the part of some
Previous Owner. The doors, boot, and bonnet were all quite sound, and
among the rotten spring mounts, rockers, floors and bulkhead, remain an
incredibly good front end. The front wings, despite some rust around the
bottoms and headlight buckets, were in much better shape than I had
imagined.
All that remains, is some work with the sawzall and cutting torch, to remove
the tail panels, and a very clean right front frame rail. It really doesn't
take long at all to strip a car down to nothing. Maybe that's what I should
do to the '64 now, so everything can be fixed and painted properly. I'm
already part way there, how much longer could it take?
Marietta will be gone soon, but much of her will live on in other MG's, and
I'll get to fix some of those parts again.
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